Angular + ESRI = Not bad

There’s no question that I’m an ng fanboy. React’s willy nilly do whatever you want attitude doesn’t do much for me. Vue is basically react. Let’s be serious. I like the clear separation of my HTML, CSS, TS, and unit tests. That won’t ever go away. Work has taken me into some new territories where I didn’t think I’d have as much fun as I am. That’s enough of my ranting about javascript frameworks. Let’s dive into the root of the article! ...

September 6, 2019 · James D Hughes

ArcGIS Upgrade Error 28809

I was upgrading ArcGIS Server (10.6.1 -> 10.7) the other day… We encountered an issue with the account ArcGIS was using to run itself - the LocalSystem account. We don’t have passwords for it, so the installer would not let us proceed. We couldn’t change the user either which posed a bit of an issue so we decided to just cancel our install and proceed along our merry way. So we turned our ArcGIS Server service back on and gave it a few minutes to spin back up however it never did! We hunted through our logs and didn’t see much to indicate what might have happened. ...

June 15, 2019 · James D Hughes